An Earnest Appeal

Friends, here’s an appeal from SAHYOG, a small NGO working out of Yelahanka Satellite Town, Bangalore.  We basically assist people in need, to meet their educational and medical expenses.  People in need are in millions and ours may be just a drop in the ocean but little drops make an ocean and with that in mind, we continue lending our hands to society.  For our regular activities, please check out our blogsite https://sahyog-sahyog.blogspot.com.  

2020 onwards, the world has changed a lot for the worse.  COVID-19 has turned the world upside down and there is not anywhere that human beings can escape this deadly virus.  Thus any kind of assistance from any corner is welcome.   Millions of people are in distress and need assistance.  Last year, right from March, SAHYOG started diverting all its funds towards the needs of the people hit by the pandemic.  SAHYOG assisted four community kitchens set up around Bangalore (one of them run by a transgender) to feed the thousands of migrant labourers who lost their livelihoods, shelters and everything overnight!  Then, of course, we assisted a few poor patients to get treated, get fed and meet the educational expenses of their children.  We assisted destitute homes, orphanages and senior citizen homes to get their rations and regular medicines.  Details will be put up on our blog.

We augured 2021 with the hope that the virus will bid goodbye to this planet.  But the virus has only strengthened itself and is hitting us harder during this second wave.  India is shaken thoroughly and the system is simply not able to bear the burden.  SAHYOG once again decided to step in with its small hands.  Our trustee Mansoor Chetlu, a born activist, worked as a coordinator on behalf of all the NGOs with the State Government last year.  This year, he started his work independently, besides coordinating for NGOs like SAHYOG.  The following are the purposes that we would like to focus as of now, though the list may extend based on the situations that arise as the time goes:

1. Supporting community kitchens.  Already two kitchens have started functioning, one of them run by the employees of a small hotel, which had to close down due to lockdown and one run by a widow.  These kitchens pack food packets (vegetarian and non-vegetarian) thrice a day, at the rate of Rs.45 per packet.  These packets are delivered to hundreds of patients and their families who are quarantined inside their houses by dedicated volunteers.  Most of these families are those that have lost jobs and have no means to order on Swiggy!

2. Supplying the essential medicines, rations, medical equipments like nebulisers, pulse oxy-meters, BP apparatus, glucometers, gloves, PPE kits, sanitisers, masks and toiletries to destitute homes, orphanages, senior citizen homes, charitable hospitals and even needy individuals.

3. Donating oxygen concentrators/cylinders to hospitals in need.

4. Offering the service of getting the oxygen cylinders refilled, transporting medical supplies, shifting destitutes to shelters/hospitals, etc.

5. Assisting people in distress to meet their medical, educational and funeral expenses.

If not for generous donors, SAHYOG cannot make this difference in society.  We appeal to all of you to kindly support us to carry on our noble mission.  We know you will already be doing it in various other ways and helping people around you.  But, any small contribution to us will go a long way.  

Donations accepted only in Indian Rupees.  Donations may directly be transferred to the following account:

SAHYOG, 

SB Account No. 694104000002592

IDBI Bank, Yelahanka Satellite Town Branch

Bangalore-560064

IFSC Code: IBKL0000694

PAN No. of SAHYOG: AAITS8846C

All your donations to SAHYOG are eligible for exemptions under Section 80G of the Income Tax Act.

Please do not fail to send us the following information once you donate the amount, for us to send your receipts and also update our records for IT purposes:

1. Name of the Donor

2. Full residential address of the donor

3. PAN Number

This information may be sent to any of the following numbers on WhatsApp:

Sudha Narasimhachar - 9008763078

R V Narasimhachar - 9880597173

Or by mail to wordsofsudha@gmail.com

 SAHYOG

Annual Reports

For the year ending 31.03.2020

Medical Purposes:

1. Surgery expenses for baby (Infant) of Shantha   -                                    40000

2. Ward renovation at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology                     295000

3. Emergency medical expenses and cost of shifting a destitute                                       

     patient to a shelter                                                                                        4895

4. Cost of surgery for baby Jaswanth, s/o Bhaskar                                      10000

For the year ending 31.03.2021

Medical Purposes (General):

1. Cost of painting the Shanthi Dhama ward complex (exterior)

            at Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology                                                 150000

2. Medical aid for inmates of destitute homes around Bangalore                  60000       

3. Sponsored dialysis sessions at Krishna Sevashrama Hospital

for Sri P Subramanya, a priest who lost his livelihood                               20000

4. Liver transplant surgery for 7-year-old Nikhita at Aster RV Hospital         20000 

5. Provision of three months’ requirement of medicines to NAMS 

Sneha Sadan, a destitute home of senior citizens                                     29318

6. Emergency gynec procedure for Elizabeth Anne Taylor at 

       Baptist Hospital                                                                                             5000

7. Diagnostic tests and medicines for a pregnant cancer patient 

Smitha Manjunath                                                                                       12545

8. Donated 2 steel almirahs to NAMS Sneha Sadan destitute home            26000

9. Ear Surgery for baby Limira at M.S. Ramaiah hospital                              12000

                          

Donations for people/institutions hit by the pandemic:                  

Medicines, PPEs, Masks and Sanitizers:

                     

1. Supplied to DIPR, Government of Karnataka                                            16000

2. Medicines for Kuchipudi artists in distress, through Halim Khan              81510 

            at  Ongole, Andhra Pradesh

3. Masks and PPEs for St.John’s Hospital                                                    79843

4. Masks and PPEs for Victoria Hospital                                                       46000

5. Sanitisers for a police station through students                                          27875

6.                       

Food and ration:  

1. Ragi to Chiguru, hostel for the poor children at Magadi                             82000

2. Rations to Kuchipidi artists in distress, through Halim Khan

            at  Ongole, Andhra Pradesh                                                                       22842

3. Rations to families linked to AMBA, an institution working for

       Training of Autistic Children                                                                        25000

4. Rations to RVM FOSA destitute home and hospital                                 31080

Educational purposes:

1. College fees for 5 poor meritorious students to REVA College                25000

2. Educational expenses of slum children supported by Neelam                                                   

       Trust, Chennai                                                                                            40000

3. Tuition fees for MCA to Sri Mahendra at Sambhram Academy of 

            Of Management Studies                                                                            .  

4. Tuition fees for Ms.Meenakshi at SSMRV College                                   21500